I am very grateful for all of you and for the health of my children.  My life is filled with joy each day!

The girls each had a Christmas program at school where they sang songs for all the guests.  They did a really good job and were very cute.

I got a dog for my Christmas present this year.  She is a year old Vizsla.  We named her China because Heather use to call Saidey China when she was a baby and I wanted a name that ment something to me.  Se is a really good dog and we love having her around.  Tally has also found a new home for herself.  She love to go inside the crate and close it.  One of these times I might find her locked inside from one of her siblings thinking that they are being really funny.  

Adrian was diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea.  He had his tonsils taken out on the 5th.  He was so brave and did an excellent job.  It did take him 10 days to totally recover but he is doing well now and it is amazing to listen to him sleep.  Because he can!!!!

Sunday after all the birthdays we had a family party where we celebrated both of them.  Karen made a really cute cake that was half blue half pink :)

On Sean's birthday we decorated our Christmas tree.  It was a fun time and we only broke one bulb.  Tally has been really good at leaving the tree alone.  I'm proud of her.

Brent is on his mission in GA so for Christmas the kids decorated a big stocking for him that we then filled with presents.  I'm sure he will enjoy it and I hope that it makes him not be so home sick on Christmas.   

Troy came over one Sunday and made cookies with the kids.  They had a lot of fun and everyone got to enjoy the end result.

Hailey turned 5 on          Nov. 26 we had a fun time celebrating                         her birthday.  She is in love with Hannah Montana so we got her a Hannah Montana pinjata that everyone enjoyed even Tally got in on the action.

Vance had this really crazy idea to make himself clothes out of a grocery bag.  After his discovery everyone else wanted to join into the fun.  I told him thanks for the great idea cuz this will save me a ton of money not having to buy them new clothes.  :)

Sean and I got to take a quick weekend trip to Vegas.  We stayed at Mandalay Bay which was very nice.  That night we went to Chris Angel's show "Believe".  For those of you who don't know we are huge fans of Chris Angel.  Being able to see him in person at the show was really neat but his show was only so so.  The next day we went back to his store to buy something and to our surprise he was there with his girlfriend Holly who is a playboy bunny.  That was the high light of our trip.  It was really cool to get to meet him.  The other picture is of us on top of the building that our loft is at.  It is looking back at the strip.  

Vance had his four wheeler at the bottom of the hill when the battery died, so he tied a rope to the back of it and had Adrian help him pull while he pushed it up.  They had great team work and got it back up the hill.  I was very proud of them.

Last week was Hailey and Saidey's date with mom and dad.  We went to place that had arcades, bounce playground, and a big jungle gym.  They had so much fun.  That is where Hailey wants to have her birthday at and the boys want to go when it is their turn again.

It snowed a week or so back and we got to sled in our yard.  The back yard is to steep and we don't have anything to stop them at the bottom yet so we had to sled in the front.  They had a good time.

Next was off to the girls school.  They also had a parade and Halloween play that they did.  The sang some songs that were really cute.

Saidey was a the wicked which from Wizard of Oz and Hailey was Dorthy.  Natalia was a carebear.  This was the only time that she wore her costume.  Mom stayed home with her when we went trick or treating so she didn't need to be dressed up then.  

Halloween was a busy day for us.  It started out with a parade at the boys' school.  You could not wear a mask so Adrian decided to be a Power Ranger.  He was Doby from Harry Potter and his whole costume was a mask so he had to be something else at school.  Vance was a Dementor which also had a mask that he could not wear.  :(  

This week for FHE we carved jack-o-lanterns out of candles.  They turned out so cute.  I'm not sure why Hailey's shirt of off cause I was actually was really sick and in bed.